Landpartie 01

Tell me how to Disappear

Untitled

Wreckage

Caring and carrying

School Room

The Wounded Angel

Sand

The Moon Child

Concrete Circles

Colleagues Wanted I - Superheroines and visionary associates"

In the exhibition "Colleagues Wanted I - Superheroines and visionary associates for everyday challenges" at alpha nova galerie futura the group "Maternal Fantasies" presents the photo text installation "Like so many..." which was created during a short residence at betOnest in Stolpe/Brandenburg in June 2018.

Inspired by the feminist polemics of the second women's movement, the autobiographical text fragments emerged in direct response to the artists’ internal confrontation with the themes of maternity, identity, and representation

Using passages from Adrienne Rich's essay "Anger and Tenderness" as creative prompts, the artists collectively engaged in automatic writing exercises and staged a series of photographic and moving images, in which they and their own children are both actors and producers.

Maternal Fantasies "Landpartie 01"

As part of the first Maternal Fantasies "Landpartie", the site of the former cement factory becomes a temporary location for filming and action - a rehearsal stage for the group’s first artistic collaboration. A set of rules defined in advance by the collective inspires and structures the artistic working process, involving a varying number of group members and children. The scenes, reminiscent of ‘Tableaux Vivants’, are staged by alternating directors with an ensemble of their choice in various locations on the vast terrain. The positioning of the protagonists and the staging of a scene oscillates between art historical references from classical paintings to playful improvisations by the mother-child ensemble. Props made with the children - phallic body extensions and concealing masks - are intuitively included, interpreted and modified. The children's "Freeze Game", similar to stop dancing, becomes an artistic method, a photographic and cinematographic strategy. Maternal Fantasies "Landpartie 01" reflects artistic production as collective practice and experience and counters traditional models with contemporary, processual alternatives developed through practical work.